East Atlantic

Cold productive waters from the British Isles to Iberia — kelp forests, conger eels, seal colonies.

Species cataloged: 541

Water temperature

10-20°C

Visibility

5-20 m

Best diving season

May-Sep

Top dive destinations

Scapa Flow, Lundy, Costa da Morte

Species in this zone

• Epinephelus marginatus - Dusky grouper
• Octopus vulgaris - Common octopus
• Hippocampus guttulatus - Long-snouted seahorse
• Tursiops truncatus - Common bottlenose dolphin
• Manta birostris - Giant oceanic manta ray
• Sepia officinalis - Common cuttlefish
• Dasyatis pastinaca - Common Stingray
• Palinurus elephas - European spiny lobster
• Paracentrotus lividus - Purple sea urchin
• Spongia officinalis - Bath sponge
• Ginglymostoma cirratum - Nurse Shark
• Balistes vetula - Queen triggerfish
• Chromis chromis - Mediterranean damselfish
• Muraena helena - Mediterranean moray
• Rhincodon typus - Whale shark
• Synanceia verrucosa - Reef stonefish
• Labrus bergylta - Ballan Wrasse
• Zeus faber - John Dory
• Hippocampus hippocampus - Short-snouted seahorse
• Epinephelus itajara - Atlantic goliath grouper
• Taeniura grabata - Round stingray
• Scorpaena scrofa - Red scorpionfish
• Metasepia pfefferi - Flamboyant Cuttlefish
• Homarus gammarus - European lobster
• Conger conger - European conger
• Mola mola - Ocean sunfish
• Seriola dumerili - Greater amberjack
• Sparisoma cretense - Mediterranean parrotfish
• Pollachius pollachius - Pollack
• Anomia ephippium - Saddle oyster